GAA rivalry has long pitted parish against parish and turned county against county, but it was impossible to distinguish friend from foe at the funeral of Dublin football hero Kevin Heffernan.

THE image is still clear in Tony Whelan’s mind. His 17-year-old daughter stands in the doorway, home from a night out, no longer a girl, but a woman.

THE HEARTBROKEN father of a leaving cert student killed in a bomb blast in Turkey a year ago this weekend says he still expects his bubbly, bright daughter to walk through the door.